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Some advice for junior developers new on the job by Henrik on November 15th, 2017First of all, the below applies to a quite high stakes setting in a financially related company, a place were we don't move fast and break things if we want to continue being in business.

Setting up Ansible for MySQL by Henrik on September 14th, 2016In this how to we're going to manage in total 16 different LXC nodes on two different host machines.

A Function Browser for Emacs by Henrik on April 9th, 2016In my emacs init file for 2015 post I state:
However it would be kind of nice to be able to run a command to open a new buffer with links to line numbers for all definitions in the current file, shouldn’t be too hard to implement either, we’ll see if I manage in 2015.

Hacking Wordpress The Ugly And Quick Way by Henrik on August 4th, 2015Recently I've started a little project to see how I can do with IDN affiliate sites where there is a lot less competition than in English.

Functional HTML Rendering with PHP by Henrik on August 4th, 2015When you're working with a programming language that doesn't have templating per default and you're not in the mood - or don't see the need - for templating your first course of actions is to write something to obviate having to print and concatenate everything.

I’m currently setting up a Swedish site for a friend, this time I changed site language in the backend to Swedish and utf8. The database collation is set to utf8 too, and the charset line in the config file looks like this: $database_connection_charset = ‘utf8’;

It still wouldn’t work, special Swedish vowels still ended up garbled in the menu, only in the menu which is the domain of Wayfinder.

Changing the very last lines in the snippet did it though, they now look like this: